Comments on: #891 – Fever (37 Comments)

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:20:10 +0000

I’ve done it in the past, haven’t done it with any of the jobs I’ve had recently.

When I was in High School, I had first and second period Co-op, where I was supposed to go work a job as a class, but the co-op job I worked for didn’t open until 11am, which was when second period was almost over. So I ended up doing my co-op after work, meaning I got to sleep in until lunch. But, since my dad was the principal of my school, I often called him and said, dad, I don’t feel well, I won’t be coming in today, and for a while he was ok. Then he started to tell me I had to come in.

And most of the time I’ve called in sick when I wasn’t, I’d sleep in, then play video games or play guitar or something.

By: Gotora

Gotora — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:57:17 +0000

Well, for me… I usually spend the day in mental recovery. aka rocking out to loud music and playing video games for hours on end. I guess sometimes I just have to feed the addiction.

By: Anji

Anji — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:23:14 +0000

I went to Disneyland. Twice.

By: Mishie

Mishie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:50:22 +0000

I was never able to just call in sick for school as since my mum is a pharmacist, whenever i tried to say that i wasn’t feeling well to get her to call the school, she would just go to the medicine cabinet get out about 10 different tablets, all of which tasted absolutely disgusting, and told me to take the tablets and we were leaving in half an hour… But on the bright side, whenever i had any kind of sports day, i just got her to write me a sick note and i could just mess around at home.

By: Radical Edward

Radical Edward — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:04:36 +0000

Well, mine is the most tragic…I was staying home from school on a mental health day. 9/11 happened, so I got a good view of the Twin Towers burning even though I live in Washington. Can’t seem to think that H1N1 would actually seem more tragic than that.

By: Dave D

Dave D — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:16:08 +0000

At my previous job, they have an extremely generous PTO allowance – at one point I had accumulated 4-5 weeks worth of PTO after a few years in… combined with slow times every now and then… it was kinda nice if I needed to catch up on sleep to just tell my supervisor “Don’t feel well. Taking the afternoon off and heading home” or those days when my sinuses flared up, I’d just fire off an Email and say “Sinus headache. Taking the day off”. At one point enough employees like I did had plenty of PTO banked that we were ordered to burn half of it before the end of the fiscal year… ’twas fun as I got to go on many mini-roadtrips over consecutive weeks going where I felt like going. XD
My current job? Feast to famine. I got nailed by H1N1 and have effectively wiped out my first years’ vacation and PTO allotment. :-/

By: Kharn

Kharn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:12:12 +0000

@Aaarrrgh : What you’re feeling is called hypocrisy.

By: LL

LL — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:25:13 +0000

I’ve called in sick to work a few times. Mostly to spend time with friends and family, or go to concerts. Sometimes just because I need to take a “mental health day”, and spend an entire day doing nothing.

By: AdmiralChaos

AdmiralChaos — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:36:39 +0000

called in sick one day because i just didn’t feel like working.
8 hours later i came down with swine flu.

By: Nao

Nao — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:29:12 +0000

I do really well about not calling in sick to school for about the first two months or so of the semester, but those last few weeks? Yeah, I miss a lot of class due to illness or alien abduction. But this semester, I’ve missed nearly a month trying to nurse my husband back to health from H1N1-pneumonia. And my teachers don’t believe me.